Best movies of before 2000

Bonnie and Clyde(1967)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, robbing cars and banks.



Shadow of the Vampire(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.



Quills(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.



The Perfect Storm(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.



Repulsion(1965)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.



Snatch(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.



As Good as It Gets(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.



Leaving Las Vegas(1995)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.



In the Name of the Father(1993)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.



Edward Scissorhands(1990)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.



The Player(1992)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?



Stir of Echoes(1999)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

After being hypnotized by his sister in law, a man begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around him.



Sling Blade(1996)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.



Boyz n the Hood(1991)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.



Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai(1999)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

An African American mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.



Gremlins(1984)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.



Batman(1989)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.



Grosse Pointe Blank(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.



Dazed and Confused(1993)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.



Enemy of the State(1998)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated crime.




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